Textile Futures Research Centre

Event

Jo Pierce and Philippa Brock

Studio Houndstooth launches The Houndstooth Project – a serious play, ludic, egalitarian project, which uses the well-recognised, houndstooth textile motif as the starting point for a public engagement making project for everyone and anyone as either individuals or (more…)

Event

The Edible Alchemy Aperolab took place on the 1st of February 2013, and was organised by Bartaku and Carole Collet as part of The Resilients, a European Culture Programme Project. This project has evolved over the past 2 years in collaboration with the MA (more…)

Collaboration

Melanie Bowles and Dr Emma Neuberg

Melanie Bowles co-founded the People’s Print project with Dr Emma Neuberg to explore creativity as a tool which allows everyone to participate in the design process and to create bespoke garments for themselves. Her work lies at the intersection between handicraft and digital techniques and offers toolboxes and instructions to print and create (more…)

Workshop

The success of the Marks & Spencer and Oxfam clothes exchange initiative, which has encouraged the donation of over 10 million items, led to the launch of Shwop Lab in East London’s Old Truman Brewery. TED’s PhD student Jen Ballie collaborated with the Lab and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion to organise a co-creation workshop called Unpick (more…)